Firefox is a great browser, but it can be a bit of a pain to keep track of your browsing history. If you’re like most people, you probably just save all your pages in one big file. But that’s not really the best way to do it. Here are some tips for making Firefox your browsing history easier:

  1. Use Firefox’s “History” tab to keep track of what you’ve been looking at. This tab shows all the pages you’ve visited, as well as the time and date you visited them. You can also click on any of these links to go back to that page.
  2. Use Firefox’s “Bookmarks” tab to keep track of the websites you want to visit again later. This tab is similar to the “History” tab, but it includes only your bookmarks (instead of all the pages you’ve visited). You can also drag and drop bookmarks between these two tabs if you want.
  3. Use Firefox’s “Downloads” tab to keep track of the files you’ve downloaded from websites. This tab includes both downloads from websites and files that have been saved locally on your computer (by default, Firefox saves all downloaded files in your Downloads folder). You can also drag and drop files between these three tabs if you want. ..

Before

Here is our browser with the default “History Menu” displayed. There is not a lot that we can look at in detail is there? We need to be able to see more than just some of today’s browsing history…

But to do that means opening the “Library Window”. Not good…not good at all. Time to make all of that browser history easy to access from the “History Menu” itself!

Options

Once you have installed the History Submenus extension and restarted Firefox, you should take a quick look at the options. Adjust the number of items shown for each of the categories to best suit your personal needs. For the “Label” option, there are only two choices…”Date Format” or “Number Of Days Ago Format”.

History Submenus in Action

It is easy to see a big difference from the default “History Menu”. Not only do you get to look through the most recent day of history at the top, but you also get to browse through the history for past days specifically (very nice!). Here you can see the “Date Format” style…

The “Date Format” style with all of the active and empty sub-menus showing…

And the “History Menu” when it is set for the “Number Of Days Ago Format” style.

Conclusion

If you find yourself becoming frustrated with the default History Menu & Manager while trying to find a specific website/link, then the History Submenus extension will be a welcome addition to your browser.

Links

Download the History Submenus extension (Mozilla Add-ons)